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Human rights group try to stop deportation

    JOHANNESBURG

    Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has appealed to the ministry of home affairs to halt its plans to deport a family of 10 back to war-torn Angola, news reports said on Wednesday.

    Quoting a statement by the NSHR, reports said that the 10 had been rounded up on 2 February and held at a police station in Rundu about 670 km north of the capital Windhoek. “The family fled the war in the Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The group has been staying with their relatives in Rundu,” the NSHR was quoted as saying. “NSHR appeals to the Ministry of Home Affairs not to deport the family to war-torn Angola, but rather to take them to the Osire Refugee Settlement.”

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